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# Site settings
title: Artificial Intelligence and Statistics Conference
email: aistats2017@gmail.com
description: > # this means to ignore newlines until "baseurl:"
  This is the website of the AISTATS conference.
baseurl: "" # the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog/
url: "http://www.aistats.org" # the base hostname & protocol for your site
#twitter_username: aistat
github_username:  aistats

TZ: UTC

# Build settings
markdown: kramdown

# change encoding for the generated output files to utf-8
encoding: utf-8

# Handling Reading
#safe:         false
#include:      [".htaccess"]
exclude:      []
keep_files:   [".git", ".svn"]
encoding:     "utf-8"
markdown_ext: "markdown,mkdown,mkdn,mkd,md"

image:
  file: fortlauderdale.jpg
  width: 400

conference:
  draft: true # set to True if the programme is draft only.
  hide_tentative: true
  proceedings:
    url: http://proceedings.mlr.press/v54/
  room: Room
  venue: Hyatt Pier 66 Hotel
  venue_url: https://pier66.hyatt.com/en/hotel/home.html
  location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
  full_name: Artificial Intelligence and Statistics
  name: AISTATS
  year: 2017
  instance: 20th
  dates:
  - 2017-04-20
  - 2017-04-22
  deadlines:
  - type: Paper submission deadline
    time: 2016-10-13T23:59:00+0
  - type: Initial reviews available
    date: 2016-12-9
  - type: Author feedback deadline
    date: 2016-12-14
  - type: Paper decision notifications
    date: 2017-01-24
  - type: Camera ready (for accepted papers) deadline
    date: 2017-03-01
  - type: Early registration deadline
    date: 2017-03-07
  - type: Regular registration deadline
    date: 2017-04-05
  chairs:
  - type: Program Chairs
    people:
    - family: Singh
      given: Aarti 
      url: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aarti/
      institute: Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University
    - family: Zhu
      given: Jerry
      url: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~jerryzhu/
      institute: Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin -- Madison
  - type: Workflow Chairs
    people:
    - family: Alfeld
      given: Scott 
      url: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~salfeld
      institute: Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin -- Madison
    - family:  Yu
      given: Adams Wei
      url: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~weiyu/
      institute: Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University
  - type: Publicity Chairs
    people: 
    - family: Ramdas
      given: Aaditya 
      url: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~aramdas
      institute: EECS and Statistics, University of California -- Berkeley
  - type: Publication Chair
    people:
    - family: Poczos
      given: Barnabas
      url: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bapoczos/
      institute: Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University
  - type: Fundraising Chair
    people: 
    - family: Agarwal
      given: Alekh 
      url: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/alekha/
      institute: Microsoft Research, New York
  - type: Conference Admins
    people: 
    - family: Smith
      given: Karen
    - family: Pregibon
      given: Daryl
  sponsors:
  - name:
    url:
previous_meeting:
  name:
  url: